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COVID-19 will accelerate, not delay, tech innovation

The global pandemic is a shock to many aspects of life—as individuals, families, teams, and organizations. For sure it’s changing business as usual, ...
Donald Fischer
by Donald Fischer
on April 21, 2020

Donald Fischer

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The third wave of open source migration

By Donald Fischer on April 14, 2020
A few weeks ago, Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal and co-founder of Acquia, published a blog post entitled Is open source recession-proof? He wrote:

Tidelift steps up managed open source support for the PyData ecosystem with NumFOCUS partnership

By Donald Fischer on October 22, 2019
Today we announced a collaboration with NumFOCUS to support three linchpin projects within the Python scientific and technical computing ...

Tidelift and the Python Software Foundation join up to support Flask and Pallets Projects

By Donald Fischer on September 17, 2019
Today the Python Software Foundation and Tidelift announced a partnership to support the community-driven Pallets Projects. These include the open ...

How to get an enterprise-class experience for community-led open source projects

By Donald Fischer on August 29, 2019
Once chided as a movement made up of communists and thieves, open source today is the modern development platform for corporate applications. Across ...

Tidelift teams up with Ruby Together to support infrastructure for every Ruby developer

By Donald Fischer on July 17, 2019
Today Tidelift and Ruby Together jointly announced an industry-first collaboration to support critical Ruby infrastructure. Through the Tidelift ...

What is managed open source?

By Donald Fischer on June 27, 2019
Take yourself back in time for a minute. It is 2007, and you’ve just finished building your new J2EE app. You get a message on your Blackberry from ...

Tidelift partners with GitHub, funds 4,000 open source projects

By Donald Fischer on May 23, 2019
Today, GitHub announced GitHub Sponsors, a tool to help support open source creators, with Tidelift as a launch partner.

The closed source sustainability crisis

By Donald Fischer on April 25, 2019
Today, it is clear—any software development platform that is not open source faces a sustainability crisis.

Paying the maintainers: not just how, but why

By Donald Fischer on March 12, 2019
This afternoon at the annual Open Source Leadership Summit, the Linux Foundation announced an initiative called CommunityBridge, “a new platform ...

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